John Spearing's Thihn can gain compensation for a fine effort last time by scoring at Windsor today.

He ran a tremendous race in the Lincoln Handicap at Doncaster in the first major contest of the new Flat season last month, and things did not go entirely his own way in the 23-runner affair either.

The Machiavellian seven-year-old lost a fair amount of ground when he was slowly away at the start and still had loads to do entering the business end of the mile feature.

But he kept on well and was beaten just two and a half lengths into fourth.

He acts on most types of ground - his Doncaster run was on good to soft - but he seems most effective under fast conditions.

Two of his four career wins have come on good to firm running and he is likely to get that sort of ground at the Berkshire track. Indeed his last win came under those conditions over this course and distance last June. He is on a career-high mark but is obviously in fine fettle at the moment and makes plenty of appeal in the Russell Reed Classified Stakes.

Dimple Chad is likely to improve plenty for his one run as a juvenile and is worth keeping an eye on in his division of the Windsor Fashion Week Maiden Stakes.

Luca Cumani's well-bred Sadler's Wells colt finished mid-division in a maiden at Newmarket at the back end of last year over seven furlongs.

He was not given a hard time when his chance had gone and will be much more effective over this 10 furlongs.

Bravura has done all his winning at Lingfield so far but he can score on Southwell's Fibresand surface for Gary Moore.

His Never So Bold four-year-old is effective at any trip from seven furlongs to a mile and a quarter and he used his turn of foot to good effect when catching Northside Lodge close home last time.

His previous run was disappointing but his trainer did report that he had showed signs of colic beforehand so it is probably best to forget that effort.

He should be hard to beat in the betdirect.co.uk Classified Stakes over a mile.